MEAM Department Newsletter, Penn | Mar 2023
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
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Sharon Kuo Receives Inaugural Madison ‘Maddie’ Magee Award for Undergraduate Excellence
Sharon Kuo, a graduating senior in?Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics?(MEAM), is the inaugural recipient of the Madison “Maddie” Magee Award for Undergraduate Excellence. “Maddie combined her love of mechanical engineering and bioengineering to engage selfless projects and endeavors of substance and impact,” says Graham Wabiszewski, Senior Lecturer in MEAM. “Sharon is guided by these same principles. She has frequently combined her formal education in engineering and programming and her love of art and design to improve others’ lives.”?READ MORE
Pranjal Nautiyal Receives Pair of Scholarly Honors
Pranjal Nautiyal, a postdoctoral associate in the Carpick Research Group in MEAM, has been honored with an?Early Career Award from the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, and has been named to the?2023 class of Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors.?READ MORE
The Brooke Owens Fellowship: Empowering Women in Aerospace
Ananya Malhotra, a third-year undergraduate studying MEAM and minoring in Computer and Information Science has been awarded a?Brooke Owens Fellowship. This fellowship recognizes young women and other gender minorities with a passion for aerospace and aims to provide them with career opportunities and guidance from successful women in the industry.?READ MORE
The Next Generation of Micrometer-scale Batteries
James Pikul, Assistant Professor in MEAM, spoke with?Penn Today?on the growth of interconnected devices and the robotics industry, leading to emerging designs and novel research unlocking the potential for smaller, more powerful batteries.?READ MORE
2023 Recipient of the John A. Goff Prize
Konstantinos Garyfallogiannis, a Ph.D. candidate working with Professors?Prashant Purohit?and?John Bassani?has been awarded the John A. Goff Prize.?This prize is awarded annually to a graduate student in MEAM who has been selected by the faculty on the basis of criteria of scholarship, resourcefulness, and leadership.?
Who, What, Why: Devin Carroll and His Robot Made of Tree Branches
Devin Carroll is a Ph.D. candidate in MEAM working in the?ModLab?of Asa Whitney Professor?Mark Yim,?where they develop modular robots, which, like Legos, are made of multiple subunits that can be assembled and reconfigured to do a variety of tasks. Carroll’s latest device?is a motor-powered robot comprised of sticks and strings that could someday be used to support the recovery of an injured arm in a clinical setting.?READ MORE